Wednesday, June 20, 2012

GW Psychiatric Treatment: Letter to Dr. Pitts 8/26/93

August 26, 1993
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
#136
Washington, DC  20008

Suzanne M. Pitts, MD
Dept. of Psychiatry
GW Univ. Medical Ctr.
2150 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC  20037

Dear Dr. Pitts:

I offer for your examination the following question, or paradox:

How is it that an individual who appears to reveal little of himself (or, in Dr. Wiener's opinion, has an intense fear of revealing himself) in therapy would have a high deviant score on the MMPI?

Perhaps the observation that I do not reveal myself is an incorrect, countertransference (irrational) valuation.  Note that one could interpret Dr. Wiener's statement "You don't reveal yourself" as a (paranoid) projection/reversal of the statement "I am threatened by how much you see."

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

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